<p>This week we talk hail, Vesuvius, volcanic bombs, and vitrified brains.</p>

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<li><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337768981_Death_Survival_and_Damage_during_the_79_AD_Eruption_of_Vesuvius_which_destroyed_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Scandone, Roberto, Lisetta Giacomelli, and Mauro Rosi. "Death, Survival and Damage during the 79 AD Eruption of Vesuvius which destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum." J. Res. Didact. Geogr 2 (2019): 5-30.</a></li>
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<h2>Fun Paper Friday</h2>

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<li>An amazing new finding shows that brains were vitrified or turned to glass during the nearly 2000 year old eruption of Vesuvius.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-88894-5.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Giordano, Guido, et al. "Unique formation of organic glass from a human brain in the Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE." Scientific Reports 15.1 (2025): 5955.</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vesuvius" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Mt Vesuvius</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinian_eruption" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Plinian</a></li>
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Episode 416 - "Life is a Physics Exam"

John Leeman and Shannon Dulin discuss geoscience and technology weekly for your enjoyment! Features include guests, fun paper Friday selections, product reviews, and banter about recent developments. Shannon is a field geologist who tolerates technology and John is a self-proclaimed nerd that tolerates geologists.